Erno Dohnanyi, Janos Starker - Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song (1957) [2008 DSD]

It is difficult to think of Dohnányi as a contemporary of Kodály and Bártok – his music is so much of the earlier generation of Post-Romantics. He has developed from Brahms, after as Richard Strauss, instead of reacting against these influences. Apart from his career as a concert pianist – one of the last of the great pianist-composers following the tradition from Liszt to Rachmaninov – he has held a wide variety of professional and administrative positions, ranging from his professor-ship of the Berlin Hochschule, in 1908, through the conductorship of the Budapest Philharmonic. He has served as director of the Budapest Conservatoire, director of the Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation, and, his last post, composer-in-residence at Florida State University. During this final period, he has appeared all over the world as a pianist, and recorded some basic masterworks of his repertoire.


Tracks:

01-13. Ernö Dohnányi: Variationen über ein Kinderlied, Op. 25
14. Ernö Dohnányi: Konzertstück in D major, Op. 12
15-17. Ernö Dohnányi: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 42

Personnel:

Erno Dohnányi (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)

Janos Starker (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Walter Süsskind (conductor)